Poll Before the Debate:

1. Dr. Ben Carson
2. Donald Trump
3. Carly Fiorina
4. Ted Cruz
5. Hike Huckabee

Poll After the Debate:

1. Ted Cruz
2. Dr. Ben Carson
3. Donald Trump
4. Carly Fiorina
5. Mike Huckabee

Overall, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson are the big winners in last night’s Republican presidential debate, at least on Twitter. Fiorina and Carson each picked up 22-thousand new Twitter followers. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Fiorina now has 515-thousand followers and Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, surged to 624-thousand. Those numbers are still way behind frontrunner Donald Trump. The billionaire real estate developer picked up ten-thousand, taking his total to about four-and-a-quarter million.  ]]>